Abstract
INTRODUCTION In the 40 years since the beginning of the physician assistant (PA) profession, the role of medical director has changed, to be sure, although not always in a systematic, uniform, or even progressive way. In the beginning, the medical director was a legislated necessity for any program to get started. Today, with programs and the profession at their current mature level of development, the medical director role has become much less uniform, and individual programs utilize their medical director in highly variable ways. We stand at a point, as we enter the fifth decade since the PA profession’s inception, where we can look both forward and back, to see what the role of the medical director has been, and what it can and should be for the next era of PA education.
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